AERIAL ACTION TEAM DESIGNS AND PERFORMS HALF-TIME SHOW AT NFL PRO-BOWL
WHO: Warrior Girl LLC and the Aerial Action Team
WHEN: February 8th, 2009
WHERE: Hawaii
CONTACT: Kitty Morgan, Owner Warrior Girl LLC
the.warriorgirl(at)gmail.com
Kitty Morgan, owner of Warrior Girl LLC, returned to the Detroit Metro Area in 2007 after traveling throughout Europe for 8 years with various theatre troupes and Cirque du Soleil. She will be performing on February 8th at the NFL Pro-Bowl. She, along with her partners in San Francisco, formed the Aerial Action Team, a group of circus performers, pranksters, and daredevils. Warrior Girl LLC is working with the Aerial Action Team to design, rig, and perform a bungee performance during the half-time show of the NFL Pro-Bowl.
Warrior Girl and John Law co-founded the Aerial Action Team in 1996 in San Francisco. Warrior Girl, who hailed from the Detroit Area, decided one day to perform her first solo aerial show with a 16 foot spiderweb, and a crane at SOMA Gallery in SF for the Burning Man Arts Festival Fundraiser. John Law, who hails from Big Rapids, MI; and is one of the founders of the Burning Man Arts Festival in the Nevada Desert, saw Warrior Girl’s performance and approached her to work together to create an exciting troupe of performers who force the audience to look in a different way at performance art, UP!!
The Aerial Action Team has performed all around the world, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Barcelona, and Berlin, for groups like The Grateful Dead, the Merry Pranksters, 3-d painter Skee Goodheart, and now the NFL.
Mike Templeton, who has performed in Japan, Italy, and across the States (a local icon in San Francisco) is joining the Aerial Action Team in Hawaii as a rigger and performer. Mike designed the mobile rig for the performance as well as 3D models and renderings. He has been involved with the Aerial Action Team and Warrior Girl since 1996.
Warrior Girl can be seen performing amazing aerial activities at Clutch Cargo’s in Pontiac on Saturday Nights, and at various Detroit Metro Locations.
photo by MT Templeton Variety
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